Fuel and Combustion

Fuel and Combustion

Designing a Gas Turbine Combustor Test Rig and Testing a Sample Combustor at Atmospheric Conditions

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
AmirHossein Azimi 1
Masoud EidiAttarZade 2
Sadegh Tabejamaat 2
Abbas Oni 2
Salehe Zahab 2
MohammadMahdi BalZade 2
Benyamin Kankashvar 2
Majid Aghayari 2
1 Amirkabir University of Technology
2 Department of Aerospace Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Keywords
Gas turbine
Combustion chamber
Test rig
Test section
atmospheric
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